Cali Swimrun Girls
Welcome to episode thirty-three of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!
On the show this week we have Team Cali Swimrun Girls on. Caroline Wolek and Kelsie Pearson are a Swimrun team out of Southern California and part of the California Swimrun crew with Andy Hewitt, Sean Durkin, The Swimrun Monks, and others. More about this interview later in the show.
Training Update
We didn’t do a Swimrun practice this weekend for the first time in a while. Our usual Sunday swim was also canceled due to thunderstorms…so it was a lite weekend of training. Chris finished his One Punch Man Challenge but is still trying to do a bunch of pushups every day for some reason.
Shout Outs
This week we are shouting out our newest patron on Patreon, Carolyn. She’s been a big supporter of the show since we launched it in January and a good friend to us since way before that.
Feats of Endurance Weekly Award
This week’s award is going out to Rob from San Anselmo. He’s been putting some work in! Congrats.
New Segment Alert
Starting next week, we will be launching a new segment for the show: This Week in Swimrun. We plan on updating everyone on the Swimrun events that happened around the world (and that we heard about) to showcase all the cool places where race directors are putting on races. We’ll probably not catch every single event, but we’ll try.
LTBz Updates
Our latest column in Triathlete Magazine, How to Pick an Awesome Swimrun Team Name, is out now so make sure that you check it out and give it a thumbs up if you liked it.
We recently posted our Swimrun Gear Guide to help everyone that might be looking for a place to start on all things Swimrun gear. We get asked a lot of questions about gear and what we use so we thought that we would write something up that we will update as we try new and review new stuff.
Our new-ish project, The International Swimrun Adventure Guide, is up and running and we’ve got a bunch more submissions. If you have a great training route that you don’t want to keep secret you can head over to our website and fill out the form on our homepage.
Finally, our latest episode of Gear Talk is out and we review the Vivobarefoot ECS Tempest, give some updates on previous gear that we’ve reviewed, and a first impressions report of the Ark Sports Vigg Swimrun Wetsuit. Check it out and send us suggestions for future episodes!
Cali Swimrun Girls Interview
Caroline and Kelsie are both amazing athletes (D1 swimmer and an almost-pro triathlete respectively) and found Swimrun separately and then got introduced to each other by Sean Durkin and Andy Hewitt. In this interview, we chat about their athletic background, how they met, and what it took for them to finally become a team. (Spoiler alert, they weren’t fans of each other at first.)
This is a wide-ranging interview where we talk about Ötillö Catalina (they finished 3rd and qualified for the World Championship), connect a bunch of storylines from the race, talk about the beauty of the team aspect of Swimrun, random swimrun adventures, and the future of the team as Caroline prepared to head off to medical school. All kinds of good stuff in this episode.
You can follow the caliswimrungirls on Instagram.
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